Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
Simply put, we tend to assume it is positive: If people make a lot of dosh per hour, we expect them to want to put in more hours.
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After all, while men have tripled the number of hours they're in charge of the kids since 1970, women still put in more hours on the domestic front.
As the years went on, Jack felt some pressure to put in more hours, and saw some years where he got an evaluation that was less than he expected, and sometimes he even had to go twenty-four months without a raise.
Michel tracked the working habits of employees at two investment banks and found that everyone put in more than 80 hours a week on the job and sometimes as much as 120 hours all just to try and get ahead, even though they were never explicitly told to do so.
In the seven or so years that I've been flying, I've put in more than 2, 000 hours at the stick of single-engine piston airplanes, including a Beechcraft Bonanza, two Cessnas and, most recently, a sleek Cirrus SR22 that I've owned for 18 months.
Instead, "we still have a factory-based model and mindset for the way we work - the more hours we put in the better, which creates a hamster wheel frenzy, " says Ian Price, author of Activity Illusion.
We should be investing more in public loos and encourage businesses that are making a fortune from extra licensing hours to put their hand in their pocket and pay for more conveniences.
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You can work hard, put in 200% every single day and log more hours than anyone else at the company.
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University of Texas sociologist Jennifer Glass, a senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families, points out that corporate and government professionals in the United States put in much longer workweeks than their counterparts in Europe, where limits on work hours are common, workplace flexibility is more widespread, and workers are entitled to far more vacation days per year than most Americans -- and actually use them.
Former England all-rounder Mark Ealham put them in that position with a gritty 83 spanning more than three hours.
And the TUC said UK workers put in the longest hours in Europe, with one in eight regularly doing more than 48 hours a week while 460, 000 workers did more than 60 hours a week.
Even assuming you are willing to put in six hours a week, while you are working, that works out to be more than three years to get the necessary education.
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